Could the room get any stuffier? Charisse fanned herself with a yellow legal pad. "Shall we take a vote?" she asked.
As the foreperson, she could call a vote any time. And while she was certain this would be no different than the votes taken yesterday and the day before, she had hope. Hope she could go home, and put her feet up, and watch the news and know that she could go back to the water company tomorrow entering customer payments into the computer.
Slips of paper pass both sides of the table and Charisse shuffles through them opening them into what she hopes will be a single pile: guilty, guilty, guilty, guilty, guilty, Innocent. She bites her tongue and continues with six more guilty slips. She glares at Jackson. He's the hold out. He's the reason they'll be here again tomorrow, in this stuffy little room, getting on each other's nerves. The kid's guilty already. Let’s get this done.
Jason Barnes, 19 accused of robbery of a bodega.
According to the Judge Parker, their job, as jury is to be the trier of facts. And the facts had been pretty clear: Jason Barnes had gone into the bodega in November of 2020. The pandemic was raging. He was wearing a hoodie, blue jeans and a mask - like people wear, His accomplice held a gun on the shop keeper Mr. Ortega, and while Mr. Ortega emptied the cash register, Jason Barnes, his shirt and pants stuffed with goods fled. Mr. Ortega had a heart condition and collapsed. The gunman fled with the cash. Another customer called 911. Mr. Ortega was taken to the hospital where, unfortunately he succumbed to Covid.
The police didn't have much trouble identifying Jason or the Otis Sims - the man with the gun. They both lived in the neighborhood.
Otis rolled over and said that the idea for the robbery was Jason's. Jason denied anything to do with the robbery. He did admit to stealing food but had a long sob story as to why.
I finish reading what I’ve read so far…
“Are you going to give credit to “Twelve Angry Men?” he asks me.
“No, why would I?”
“You should at least say in the comments it was inspired by the movie.”
“I can’t, I haven’t seen the movie.”
“With Henry Fonda as the hold out jurist.”
"OK, sounds like it would be good."
“You have to at least credit the movie.”
“But I can’t I made this story up. If 5 people invented the internal combustion engine at the same time in different parts of the world, then none of them stole it. This my story.”
“And it sounds like you’re sticking to it.”
I Google Twelve Angry Men. I read the plot, which unfortunately sounds strikingly similar to what I spent my time between projects writing today. Too bad I couldn’t change his mind get him to believe it really is my story.I thought I was onto something.
— Lkai
As the foreperson, she could call a vote any time. And while she was certain this would be no different than the votes taken yesterday and the day before, she had hope. Hope she could go home, and put her feet up, and watch the news and know that she could go back to the water company tomorrow entering customer payments into the computer.
Slips of paper pass both sides of the table and Charisse shuffles through them opening them into what she hopes will be a single pile: guilty, guilty, guilty, guilty, guilty, Innocent. She bites her tongue and continues with six more guilty slips. She glares at Jackson. He's the hold out. He's the reason they'll be here again tomorrow, in this stuffy little room, getting on each other's nerves. The kid's guilty already. Let’s get this done.
Jason Barnes, 19 accused of robbery of a bodega.
According to the Judge Parker, their job, as jury is to be the trier of facts. And the facts had been pretty clear: Jason Barnes had gone into the bodega in November of 2020. The pandemic was raging. He was wearing a hoodie, blue jeans and a mask - like people wear, His accomplice held a gun on the shop keeper Mr. Ortega, and while Mr. Ortega emptied the cash register, Jason Barnes, his shirt and pants stuffed with goods fled. Mr. Ortega had a heart condition and collapsed. The gunman fled with the cash. Another customer called 911. Mr. Ortega was taken to the hospital where, unfortunately he succumbed to Covid.
The police didn't have much trouble identifying Jason or the Otis Sims - the man with the gun. They both lived in the neighborhood.
Otis rolled over and said that the idea for the robbery was Jason's. Jason denied anything to do with the robbery. He did admit to stealing food but had a long sob story as to why.
I finish reading what I’ve read so far…
“Are you going to give credit to “Twelve Angry Men?” he asks me.
“No, why would I?”
“You should at least say in the comments it was inspired by the movie.”
“I can’t, I haven’t seen the movie.”
“With Henry Fonda as the hold out jurist.”
"OK, sounds like it would be good."
“You have to at least credit the movie.”
“But I can’t I made this story up. If 5 people invented the internal combustion engine at the same time in different parts of the world, then none of them stole it. This my story.”
“And it sounds like you’re sticking to it.”
I Google Twelve Angry Men. I read the plot, which unfortunately sounds strikingly similar to what I spent my time between projects writing today. Too bad I couldn’t change his mind get him to believe it really is my story.I thought I was onto something.
— Lkai
You ARE onto something. The idea of a hold-out juror is VERY general. C'mon. This is good, this is fun, I really enjoyed it, and I don't even know if the second part of it is fiction, also! (--Macoff, a fellow Dipper)
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